Saturday, April 01, 2017

Aussie pop/rockband, formed in Melbourne in 1978 by Colin Hay (lead vocals), Ron Strykert (guitar), and Jerry Speiser (drums); soon thereafter they were joined by John Rees (bass guitar) and Greg Ham (keyboard, flute). Defunct since 2002.

"The Arctic seems to be warming up. Reports from fisherman, seal hunters, and explorers who sail the seas about Spitzbergen and the eastern Arctic, all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, and hitherto underheard-of high temperatures in that part of the earth’s surface.

In August, 1922, the Norwegian Department of Commerce sent an expedition to Spitzbergen and Bear Island under the leadership of Dr. Adolf Hoel, lecturer on geology at the University of Christiania. Its purpose was to survey and chart the lands adjacent to the Norwegian mines on those islands, take soundings of the adjacent waters, and make other oceanographic investigations.

Ice conditions were exceptional. In fact, so little ice has never before been noted. The expedition all but established a record, sailing as far north as 81° 29′ in ice-free water. This is the farthest north ever reached with modern oceanographic apparatus.

The character of the waters of the great polar basic has heretofore been practically unknown. Dr. Hoel reports that he made a section of the Gulf Stream at 81° north latitude and took soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters. These show the Gulf Stream very warm, and it could be traced as a surface current till beyond the 81st parallel. The warmth of the waters makes it probable that the favorable ice conditions will continue for some time.

In connection with Dr. Hoel’s report, it is of interest to note the unusually warm summer in Arctic Norway and the observations of Capt. Martin Ingebrigsten, who has sailed the eastern Arctic for 54 years past. He says that he first noted warmer conditions in 1918, that since that time it has steadily gotten warmer, and that to-day the Arctic of that region is not recognizable as the same region of 1868 to 1917.

Many old landmarks are so changed as to be unrecognizable. Where formerly great masses of ice were found, there are now often moraines, accumulations of earth and stones. At many points where glaciers formerly extended far into the sea they have entirely disappeared."

and:

Is there global warming? I guess there is. Around 0.6 degrees Centigrades since 1950.

Last summer, I was in the Austrian Alps, more precisely the Hohe Tauern, where I climbed Grossglockner with two buddies. We started out from the Glocknerhaus, a relatively Spartan hotel near the Margaritzespeicher. Up the valley we could see what remained of the Pasterze Glacier below Grossglockner. There is indeed not much left.

However... behind the hotel there's a photo display consisting of some 5 or 6 billboard-like info panels with photos dating back to the 1860s or so.

On these displays you could clearly see that before the end of the 19th century, the retreat of the Pasterze Glacier had already begun... although the CO2 output of the world's industries was but a tiny fraction - perhaps as little as 2% - of what it is now. Make it 2%, for the sake of the argument.

Am I to believe that the Alpine glaciers started retreating because of 2 per cent of today's CO2 output?

Friday, March 31, 2017

Via Gates of Vienna, a brilliant speech by a brilliant leader: Hungarian PM Viktor Orban yesterday in La Valetta, Malta, where he adressed an EPP Congress, a convening of European center-right parties to which Fidesz, Orban's party, belongs:

"A third of the around 60,000 inhabitants of the northern French city Clichy-la-Garenne are members of the Murder- and Violence Cult islam and, as everywhere, the followers of the True Faith try to further their interests, if possible using violence. In France they receive help, just like in Germany, from socialist politicians. And so it was that in 2013 in Clichy a socialist mayor allowed the islamic community to temporarily use a vacated building, property of the city, as a mosque. In 2015 the center-right city council, freshly voted in, announced that the building would be refurbished as a library. The muslims refused to vacate the building, from then on it has been occupied. On Wednesday the authorities made true on their promise to force them out [so that the refurbishment could begin - MFBB]. The aggressive faithful reacted with war prayers and violence against police."

So these assholes were offered a TEMPORARY use of a government building. The key word is temporary. If the authorities in my hometown would offer me temporary use of some storage building because of my beautiful eyes or whatever and because at the given moment they have no use for it, it would be crystal clear to me that the moment they actually need it, it's time to pack.

Not so muslims.

You give them a finger, they take an arm. Or rather, you loan them a finger, they think they have a right to your arm. It's a perfect illustration of the mindset of these lowlives. Once they've been inside, it's their property.

It is imperative that we understand that many if not most of them now consider EUROPE ITSELF as their property - for the mere reason they are here already.

"Do civilizations die from outside or inside? Is their disappearance the result of external aggression (war, natural disasters, epidemics) or of an internal erosion (decay, incompetence, disastrous choices)? Arnold Toynbee, in the last century, was adamant: "Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder".

"The contemporary historian of ancient Greece and ancient Rome saw their civilisations begin their decline and fall, both the Greeks and the Romans attributed it to falling birth rates because nobody wanted the responsibilities of bringing up children," said Britain's former chief rabbi, Lord Sacks.

Everywhere in Europe there are signs of a takeover. Muslim students now outnumber Christian students in more than 30 British church schools. One Anglican primary school has a "100 percent Muslim population". The Church of England estimated that about 20 of its schools have more Muslim students than Christian ones, and 15 Roman Catholic schools have majority Muslim students. In Germany as well, there are fears of a massive Muslim influx into the school system, and German teachers are openly denouncing the threat of a "ghettoization".

France saw 34,000 fewer babies born last year than in 2014, a new report just found. The number of French women having children has reached its lowest level in 40 years. A low fertility rate has become a plague all over Europe: "In 1995 only one country, Italy, had more people over 65 than under 15; today there are 30 and by 2020 that number will hit 35." Welcome to the "Greying of Europe".

Additionally, if it were not for Muslim women, France would have an even lower birth rate: "With a fertility rate of 3.5 children per woman, the Algerians contribute significantly to the growth of the population in France", wrote the well-known demographer Gérard-François Dumont.[1]

In Milan, Italy's financial center, Mohammed is the top name among newborn babies. The same is true in London, in the four biggest Dutch cities and elsewhere in Europe, from Brussels to Marseille. It is Islam, not Christianity, that now saturates Europe's landscape and imagination.

Meanwhile, Europe's leaders are almost all childless. In Germany, Angela Merkel has no children, as British prime minister Theresa May and one of France's leading presidential candidates, Emmanuel Macron. As Europe's leaders have no children and no reason to worry about the future (everything ends with them), they are now opening Europe's borders to keep the continent in a demographic equilibrium. "I believe Europeans should understand that we need migration for our economies and for our welfare systems, with the current demographic trend we have to be sustainable", said Federica Mogherini, the European Union representative for foreign affairs.

The Battle of Tours in 732 was the high-water point of the Muslim tide in Western Europe. If Christians had not won, "perhaps," wrote Edward Gibbon, "the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet". Does that sound familiar these days?

Islamists take culture and history more seriously than the Westerners do. Recently, in Paris, an Egyptian terrorist tried to strike the great museum, the Louvre. He planned to deface the museum's artwork, he said, because "it is a powerful symbol of French culture". Think about an Islamic extremist shouting "Allahu Akbar" while slashing the Mona Lisa. This is the trend we need to start reversing."

Mr Meotti might have added the Dutch PM, Mark Rutte, who is even a bachelor (to the best of my knowledge, there's not even a woman in his life). And alas, even Geert Wilders, though he has a girlfriend, is childless. Though in all honesty, with the life that he is leading, surrounded by bodyguards for some thirteen years now, it must be nearly impossible to raise children.

In my own private circle, the number of bachelors and people who, although in a relationship, have deliberately decided not to have children, is simply astounding.

I don't know anymore what's wrong with my "fellow" Europeans.

I fear that actually, I'm in the process of starting to hate them...

... hate them for squandering our heritage, for ridiculing what made us great, for denying what we have achieved, for demonizing what we stood for, and for throwing away our future.